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FP7Staff exchange2012–2014

DIGIT-M-ED · Global Perspectives on Learning and Development with Digital Video-Editing Media: A Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Lives of Marginalized Young People

FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)

Duration
2012-06-26 → 2014-06-25
EU contribution
€222,100
Participants
3
Scheme
MC-IRSES

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Results in brief

Global Perspectives on Learning and Development with Digital Video-Editing Media: A Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Lives of Marginalized Young People

Taking into account the complexity of the subject matter of the research, the fragmentation of media studies and the existence of various research traditions in the different countries and regions, the DIGIT-M-ED project accomplished a first step in developing collaborative research practice and in establishing understandings of how young people in diverse countries are using new media technologies in their everyday lives. Through the dialectical interchange that the exchange project afforded, the various local teams rethought and revised their approaches, theories, and data sources. Overall, the project served to promote the dialogue between various people, disciplines and approaches that have recently emerged in the field of youth digital media research – an outcome which is materialized in a collective volume and draft proposals for further research. For more details and for the most important deliverable (edited volume) see the files attached

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The exchange concerns the social, cultural, media-analytical and educational-psychological dimensions of digital media practices with a focus on the devices that are used for capturing, editing and circulating video data. DIGIT-M-ED applies inter-disciplinary perspectives and knowledge to analyse how the use of digital technologies is shaped by and shapes today’s global youth. Solid research synergies between German and Indian traditions of anthropological and sociological youth research, British scholarship in media analysis, Greek and Brazilian educational and youth research and Russian learning theories will be constructed more fully and creatively. Moreover, the methodological contribution of the project is very important. DIGIT-M-ED aims to develop an innovative methodology for the interdisciplinary and comparative/cross-cultural study of emerging digital media and technological practices and constellations with special attention to the voices and perspectives of the young people involved in the research. Existing theoretical and methodological tools from 1) post-Vygotskian psychology and learning theory 2) multimodal analysis and 3) anthropological theoretical and research traditions will be tested and further developed. A small-scale inquiry with young people in the age of 16-21 years who live in marginalized urban milieus in Athens, New Delhi and São Paulo is planed with the aim of designing large-scale research in the near future. Further activities such as workshops, collaborative teaching and joint publications and presentations will expand and intensify existing research partnerships. DIGIT-M-ED will thus facilitate the development of a productive and sustainable international research network that will investigate how digital media and technologies transform the everyday lives and affect the development of young people in North and South Europe, Brazil, Russia and India in the years to come.""

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • PANEPISTIMIO KRITIS · RETHIMNOCoordinatorGreece
  • FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · BerlinGermany
  • INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · LONDONCity levelUnited Kingdom

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union